Campus & Community

The Fels Policy Research Initiative in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania has announced five inaugural collaborative grants for as much as $15,000 each, designed to further interdisciplinary partnerships. 

The University of Pennsylvania and the National Library of Laos have launched the Digital Library of Northern Thai Manuscripts bringing thousands of ancient manuscripts out of monastic temples and making them available as open source material online.

Al Filreis, an English professor at the University of Pennsylvania, is the recipient of an inaugural Coursera Outstanding Educator Award.

Vanessa Ogle, an assistant professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, has been selected for a 2016-2017 Fellowship from The American Council of Learned Societies.  

Armenia, a country slightly smaller than Maryland with a population of around 3 million, sits in Southwestern Asia between Turkey and Azerbaijan.

Penn’s student-run Medical Emergency Response Team, or MERT, has voluntarily served the Universit

By some estimates, there are more than 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Like our sun, many of these stars are orbited by planets.Over the last five years, thousands of exoplanet candidates have been detected by NASA’s Kepler satellite, part of a search for other worlds that resemble Earth and may even be hospitable to life.

Penn’s letterpress printing studio, the Common Press, an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and collaborative work, is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Penn Abroad and Penn Summer Abroad are co-hosting The Third Annual Travel Arts Festival!